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  • Posted: Feb 27, 2023
    Deadline: Mar 12, 2023
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    The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries
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    Solutions Developer (Business Intelligence)

    ROLE PURPOSE:

    Working with members of the global IT team, the role holder will be responsible for building, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) solutions within the organisation. This role will partner with business stakeholders in order to understand their analytic requirements, and implement and maintain BI solutions to meet these needs, utilising best practices. The role requires experience in adapting existing solutions as well as creating new solutions.

    KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

    • Provide the organisation with accurate and timely BI solutions based on requirements gathered through business partnering activities
    • Maintain and support existing BI solutions
    • Proactively source new and innovative solutions that provide clear business value and construct ‘proof of concepts’ to demonstrate the new solutions
    • Proactively identify any technical project risks/issues related to BI
    • Estimate and deliver BI project tasks to agreed prioritisation and timeframes
    • Support the IT Service Delivery team with the BI reporting environment
    • Assist product owners in designing, agreeing, implementing and managing changes to the BI environment
    • Maintain accurate technical documentation
    • Communicate data and insights

    SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)

    Accountability:

    • holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
    • Holds team members and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

    Ambition:

    • sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
    • widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
    • Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

    Collaboration:

    • builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
    • values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
    • Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

    Creativity:

    • develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
    • Willing to take disciplined risks.

    Integrity:

    • honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

    QUALIFICATIONS 

    • computing degree - BSc, BA or equivalent experience

    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    Essential

    • Proven understanding of Data Modelling and Analytics
    • Advanced knowledge and experience working with relational and NOSQL databases as well as data warehousing.
    • Experience of working with Microsoft’s BI technology stack SSIS, SSRS, SSAS (tabular model), Power BI, Power Query, Excel.
    • Experience with Microsoft Azure Analytics tools and technologies such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Bricks, HD Insight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Analysis Services, Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Time Series Insights.
    • Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex technical ideas and problems clearly to non-experts
    • Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and strong problem solving skills
    • Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally working in an agile project delivery environment.
    • Experience maintaining source control in Git or Azure DevOps
    • Strong experience with various Software Development Life cycles (SDLC) methodologies: Agile or Standard waterfall initiatives
    • Proven experience working with various Project Management practices and disciplines
    • Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills to augment a close working relationship with cross functional teams
    • A history of designing and implementing reporting solutions that are both functional and engaging
    • Meticulous attention to detail

    Desirable:

    • Proficiency in DAX, MDX, Python/Scala/Spark SQL
    • Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
    • Cosmos DB
    • Machine Learning

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Save the Children on kenya.savethechildren.net to apply

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